Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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New Book on European Court Criticisms
Spyridon Flogaitis, Tom Zwart, and Julie Fraser have edited the book ‘The European Court Of Human Rights And Its Discontents. Turning Criticism into Strength’ which has just been publsihed with Edward Elgar Publishing. This is the abstract: The European Court of Human Rights…
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Liber Amicorum Vincent Berger
To honour one of the most experienced lawyers at the heart of the Strasbourg system, Vincent Berger (the retiring jurisconsult of the Court) a liber amircorum has been published. It was edited by Leif Berg, Montserrat Enrich Mas, Peter Kempees and Dean…
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New Icelandic and Lithuanian Judges Elected
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected to new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. In respect of Lithuania, Egidius Kuris was elected by a large majority. Mr Kuris is currently professor of public law at Vilnius…
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New Book on EU Accession to ECHR
After a range of articles on the issue, a monograph has now been published on the EU’s forthcoming accession to the ECHR. The book, written by Paul Gragl of the City University of London, is entitled ‘The Accession of the European Union…
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My New Article on Freedom of Expression and ECHR & ICCPR
I have just posted on SSRN my contribution entitled ‘Tacit Citing – The Scarcity of Judicial Dialogue between the Global and the Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in Freedom of Expression Cases’ for the book: Tarlach McGonagle and Yvonne Donders (eds.), The United…
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Conference on Effects and Implementation of ECtHR Judgments
On 20 and 21 September a large conference entitled ‘Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation’ is organised at the Institute of International Law at Goettingen University in Germany. The convenors are Mark Villiger, section president at…
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New Handbook on ECHR and EU Law on Asylum, Borders and Immigration
A cooperative project between the European Court of Human Rights and the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union has resulted in a Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration. It was presented today in Strasbourg. Here are the relevant parts…
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New ECHR Publications
An update on new publications related to the European Convention on Human Rights and its Court: * Barbara Mikołajczyk, ‘Is the ECHR ready for global ageing?’, International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 17, no. 4 (2013). * N. Mavronicola and F. Messineo, ‘Relatively…
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European Yearbook on Human Rights
I think I have not yet notified readers of the ECHR-related contents of the 2012 volume of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. Here they are (full table of contents here): * Tatjana CARDONA, Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ, Eva LECHNER and Brigitte OHMS, ‘ECtHR…
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Committee of Ministers Annual Report on Supervising Implementation
I had not highlighted it here yet, but the Committee of Ministers published, in April, its Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments and decisions. As the report shows, several trends are positive: less judgments on repetitive…